According to one resident, New Braunfels police said the Champions Village subdivision never registered a bleep on the cityâs crime monitor.
âYou could count the numbers of crimes on one hand â minus some fingers,â he said.
That was until Thursday, when police said a mother shot and killed her 10-year-old son and wounded her 16-year-old daughter before turning the gun on herself.Â
âI knew the mother and her children â weâre very, very sad,â said the manâs wife, adding over 15 years the couple had come to know the family living in a residence in the 500 block of Wilderness Way, where first-responders encountered a grisly scene just before 10 a.m.
Police: Two dead, one critical after mother shoots self, children in New Braunfels
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New Braunfels police say a woman shot her two children and herself, leaving her 10-year-old son dead and her daughter critically wounded.Sujata Jana / EyeEm/Getty Images/EyeEm
A woman allegedly shot her two children, killing one and seriously wounding the other, before turning the gun on herself Thursday morning in New Braunfels.
Chelsee Dodd, 43, reportedly shot her son Trace Dodd, 10, at about 9:55 p.m. in the 500 block of Wilderness Way, New Braunfels police said.
Officers arrived at the home after the shooting was reported and found the family of three with gunshot wounds. Officials did not say who called police.
New Braunfels shortly before 10 a.m. Thursday morning, where they found Dodd, her 10-year-old son,
Trace and 16-year-old daughter with gunshot wounds, the
New Braunfels Police Department
Dodd, 43, a local
realtor and her son died at the scene. Her teen daughter was unconscious and rushed to a local hospital with a life-threatening injury, police said.
Police believe Dodd opened fire on her kids before killing herself. Cops have not revealed a motive for the shootings.
Schools in the area including Oak Run Middle School, Veramendi Elementary School, and the New Braunfels Christian Academy were briefly locked down until officers secured the scene
Mother turned gun on herself after shooting son, daughter, New Braunfels police say
Teenager taken to University Hospital with life-threatening gunshot wound
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NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas – A woman and her son are dead after a murder-suicide in New Braunfels on Thursday morning, police said.
Officers were called to the 500 block of Wilderness Way around 9:55 a.m. for a report of a possible gunshot victim. When they arrived, they found 43-year-old Chelsee Dodd and 10-year-old Trace Dodd with fatal gunshot wounds, police said.
Officers also found a 16-year-old girl conscious with a life-threatening gunshot wound. She was transported to University Hospital.